Assembly Bill A987

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to medical needs which require essential electricity

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Current Bill Status - Signed by Governor


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A987 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2225
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §66, Pub Serv L; amd §1020-f, Pub Auth L; amd §3, Chap of 2022 (as proposed in S.931-A & A.3217-A)

2023-A987 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes requirements that require any medical equipment or equipment necessary for an individual whose diagnosis is likely to be significantly triggered or significantly exacerbated by a continued loss of power that will adversely impact that individual's health; removes such requirements from an emergency response plan.

2023-A987 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    987
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the public service law and the public authorities law,
   in relation to defining medical needs for essential electricity and to
   require certain service providers' emergency response plans to include
   outreach plans for customers who have documented their need for essen-
   tial electricity for medical needs; and to amend a chapter of the laws
   of 2022, amending the public service law and  the  public  authorities
   law,  relating to defining medical needs for essential electricity and
   requiring certain  service  providers'  emergency  response  plans  to
   include  outreach  plans  for customers who have documented their need
   for essential electricity for medical needs, as proposed  in  legisla-
   tive  bills  numbers S. 931-A and A. 3217-A, in relation to the effec-
   tiveness thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 21 of
 section 66 of the public service law, as amended by  a  chapter  of  the
 laws of 2022, amending the public service law and the public authorities
 law,  relating  to  defining medical needs for essential electricity and
 requiring certain service providers' emergency response plans to include
 outreach plans for customers who have documented their need  for  essen-
 tial  electricity  for  medical  needs, as proposed in legislative bills
 numbers S. 931-A and A. 3217-A, is amended to read as follows:
   (iii) identification of and outreach plans to customers who had  docu-
 mented  their  need  for  essential electricity for medical needs, which
 shall include but not be limited to, apnea monitors for infants, cuirass
 respirators, hemodialysis machines,  IV  feeding  machines,  IV  medical
 infusion  machines, oxygen concentrators, positive pressure respirators,
 respirator/ventilators, rocking bed respirators, suction  machines,  AND
 tank  type  respirators[,  as well as any medical equipment or equipment

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03965-01-3
              

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